Oriental MS 425, is a bilinguical

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, uncial

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of the

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, on paper, now in the

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in London. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1308. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

It contains the text of the four

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s on 164 paper leaves (25.4 by 18.5 cm) with a large lacunae (Luke, John 1:1-19:6; 20:13-21:13). The text is written in two columns per page, 33 lines per page. It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the , numerals of the are given in Coptic and Greek, the Ammonian Sections, a references to the Eusebian Canons, and pictures. It lacks text of Matthew 18:11.

History

The manuscript was written by Joannes, a scribe.

Constantin von Tischendorf Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 18157 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus a ...

''Editio Octava maiora''
vol. III, p. 870. The manuscript was purchased by Archdeacon

Henry Tattam Henry Tattam (28 December 1789 – 8 January 1868, Stanford Rivers, Essex) was a Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar. Life Tattam was Rector of St Cuthbert's Bedford, 1822–1849, and from 1831 to 1849 also Rector of Great Woolstone, ...

's sale. The manuscript was examined by

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and

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saw the manuscript in 1892. He used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament as a basis for the text of the Gospels.George Horner, ''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic'', 4 vols. (1898-1905; repr. Osnabrück: 1969).

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